@Reg
Here is my Calville Blanc.
It is a very good apple for fresh eating although it is known for cooking apples. I have not had enough of them for cooking.
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I have calville noire that graft this year… i’m very curious to see how it is.
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Me, too. Never heard of Calville Noir. Interested to see the fruit.
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Yes, Calvilles are large. They come in Red, Green and Yellow and a combination. The tastiest is Calville Blanc d’Hiver. The Calville Rouge is excellent as well.
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The Noir not has a pronounced ribbed bottom like Calville Blanc. Wonder why it shares the name.
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That i don’t know… there are one Calvilla Porpora but i don’t know if it’s the same or not.
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Thats a beauty!
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Its not ripe yet, some sugar but still mostly starch. Will let them hang a while longer. Firm, bit coarse grained.
I asked Steve at Cummins about the tree, it was a mislabeled sport of unknown tree that they budded up for the heck of it. So maybe i have some sort of random Calville cousin.
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Or you could have a real Calville 
My Calville ripen some time in Sept. Hope you have several of them to try picking at different time. The next picking could be the end of Aug for you.
How were the color of the seeds from the one you picked. Ripe apples have dark brown seeds.
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Seeds were only medium brown.
Since it had some good taste already im thinkin its a good apple.
Will update more in september. I let it hold onto 6 or 7 this year.
Tree is super thick, sturdy. Had to take an extra season to force it to scaffold it just wanted to climb straight up.
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Sadly, I don’t have an apple to share yet except for the very small crab-apple and not worth showing. Got a couple of apples trees from the nursery this year. Hoping next year or couple of years for fruits. Pink Lady, Snapp, and Gala are my future.
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@Johnthecook ,
After the rain on Thurs, Lodi split. Mine looked whiter than yellow.
I ate a couple before this, it was sour with soft texture. It is a beautiful, productive, large apple but I don’t care for it at all. I will remove the graft.
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Nice looking Galas. You need at least one sweet eating apple, Galas is a good choice. I prefer a balance taste of sweet and tart, but sometime want a sweet apple from time to time.
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Thanks 
i enjoy them a lot, and its the first apple payoff in our orchard
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I’ll have to check mine. Yes too many other apples better.
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They are one of the first apples to ripen here in SW Ohio. They get really mealy really fast. I do not care for them at all. It would be a waste of growing space just to have that one as an early ripening apple. Even my horses did not like the Lodi apples. They would take a bit of them and spit them out.
Your Lodi apples are really white.
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